[NTLUG:Discuss] newbie making *some* progress

[clayramsey1@comcast.net]

many thanks!  I am planning on attending the NTLUG meet tomorrow AM.
> RH9 is much better for newer hardware than RH73.
> 
> For the USB nic you may have to load some usb modules.  Or, under RedHat,
> you might try running kudzu with the USB nic installed to see if it can detect 
> it
> or not.  
> 
> I'll see if I can get my Linksys USB wireless nic to work, and if so I'll let 
> you
> know what steps I used to do it.
> 
> As far as CLI commands are concerned, there are literally hundreds of CLI 
> commands
> available for Linux, after all, Unix was originally a command-line oriented 
> system.
> However, the official RH command to start/stop the network service is
>    /sbin/service network start
>    /sbin/service network stop
>    /sbin/service network restart
> 
> Pm
> -----------
> Patrick R. Michaud, RHCE
> http://www.pmichaud.com
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:37:06PM -0600, Clay Ramsey wrote:
> > Good evening all....
> > 
> > I scrubbed the RH73 that was on my Dell Lat. CPi notebook.  I put RH9 on
> > there, and it seems better in almost all aspects.
> > 
> > BUT...
> > 
> > The USB 3Com nic I have is just not being seen..... I have traffic
> > indicators on it, but the OS is just not seeing it.  It is assigning
> > eth0 to an empty PCMCIA bay.  How do I make the USB NIC eth0?  
> > 
> > On a related note..... can you point me to a site that will list CLI
> > commands for Linux?  In particular, stop/start of the networking
> > service....
> > 
> > I appreciate the help.  I will try to make it out Sat AM.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Lance Simmons
> > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:45 PM
> > To: NTLUG Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux destro recommandation
> > 
> > * Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [031218 17:57]:
> > > 
> > > Debian is a good wild card choice... especially some of the
> > > prepackaged variants (like Knoppix and the gazillion Knoppix follow
> > > ons).  Hardware detection is excellent.  Nice to see a fall back to
> > > using the frame buffer for X automatically if nothing else works!!
> > > Good job.
> > 
> > Debian also has excellent community-based support, which is something
> > the original post asked about.  Very active email lists and IRQ channels
> > make it easy to get quick, useful answers to your Debian questions.  Bug
> > reporting is painless and well-organized (and I've seen bugs reported
> > and fixed within a matter of hours).  There's every reason to think the
> > change from the RH support model to the Fedora support model will work
> > out fine, but the Debian community has been doing for years what Fedora
> > is (IIUC) now gearing up to do.  But I don't have any Fedora experience,
> > so I can't make a direct comparison.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Lance Simmons
> > 
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